Jay Weixelbaum

Two things are true here, I believe:

1) We should be getting loud about this attack on voting.

2) GOP in Congress doesn't have the votes (unless they do nuclear option and eliminate the filibuster)

please correct me if I'm wrong

🚨 The Senate has agreed to a deal to vote on 5/6 full appropriations bills and replace the DHS funding measure with a 2-week stopgap bill, per multiple sources. That gives time to negotiate on the Dem demands for ICE and CBP restraints.

Do it!

I'd also add that I'm a big fan of @jbf1755.bsky.social , who is one of my favorite historians. She teaches there.

Ultimately, Yale's efforts failed but I never forgot what they did for us. And I still was able to glean a hell of a lot of important information from the documents.

So, that's something.

Anyway, after nearly 7 years traveling up to New Haven, the archivists and librarians went to bat for myself and another researcher to get the copyright restrictions lifted. The Sterling Library director got in touch with GM's people directly.

But there was a catch! You couldn't copy anything. Everything you (the researcher) looked at had to be done by hand. With pencils.

As you can imagine, these copyright restrictions GM imposed may not have been done in good faith. They didn't want people to know just how bad it was (it was very bad)

GM coughed up the collection because of many Holocaust restitution lawsuits happening in the early 2000s.

It's got more than 80,000 pages of documents

So I spent several years working in a collection of papers from General Motors at the special manuscript library. They detail GM's involvement with Nazi Germany (my area of study/expertise)

I’ve got a Yale story that might help (and yes I think a lot of cynicism in general is warranted):

Seeing it firsthand

Yes. Y’all should listen to the speech Tills gave right after the vote where he demanded Noem be fired

Giving the trump admin‘s doj space to create bad legal precedent for themselves/lack of good faith arguments, etc, *foster* a precedent wherein the AGs can simply stand back and let them cook. It lets the AGs kettle them into dead end scenarios and the AGs’ traps. It’s pretty magnificent, honestly.

It’s nice that Sen. Thom Tillis railed against Noem and DHS for screwing North Carolina on disaster relief. And demanding she be fired.

But I have one question for Tillis: What the hell were you thinking? You’re in a party that’s hostile to the *idea* of government.

This was entirely predictable.

Yep.

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This is why I follow you. Thank you.

My understanding is that this the full bill including DHS and that another measure without DHS (so it can be negotiated) is coming thereafter.

I could be wrong. We’ll know in a few minutes/hours I think.

This is exactly correct.

Bluesky populists will denigrate Schumer regardless (which makes them unreliable) but this is a win for Schumer, the Democrats, and everyone who has been standing up to ICE lawlessness.

Senate is currently working this out. You can watch live on CSPAN.

I think people who are miserable and scared are even more easily influenced by the populists.

yes. to me it all screams guilty conscience
or deliberate demoralization campaigns
one of the two

they should try working in this government if they think this experience is hard, I'm still working on national research ethics policy

Yeah. I think this a BlueSky pattern. We should workshop a catchprase or meme. Because I think we'll see that again!

Exactly. I've been caught up in it, too. But anger is getting me nowhere, personally.

I believe holding solidarity means getting your shit together and fighting for every inch of progress.

Twitch Twitch is the world

If you're online now and want to hear, check it: www.twitch.tv/dylanburnstv

I appreciate @dylanburnstv.bsky.social discussing this point. You aren't getting abolish ICE right now. But getting overhaul? Now that is a position Dylan and I and millions of others can get behind. That's progress.

If you're condemning Democrats for this, my thought is you're not helping.

I know it's crazy to say here, but the Democrats in the US Senate negotiate for the *entire spectrum of their voters across the whole country*

Your emotions are valid. Things are awful. They also aren't relevant to these negotiations. Full Stop.

Ah, so you believe you’re better than 152 million Americans. Both groups are evil (although anyone who questions your logic is MORE evil)

Is that about right?

That you believe you’re a better person than all of these millions of people?

I’m interrogating your logic.

Are republicans voters evil, too?